Linkspam for 20-8-2008
2008-Aug-20, Wednesday 16:14![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matgbNew stuff! The new plugins work! Excellent! I promise to post with links soon (honest), in the meantime thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
andrewducker for the new gizmos to get it working, sort of.
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Um, oops? Several friends of mine work for HBOS, nice to know their security procedures don't even cover their own cheif exec.
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An argument between churches: do dogs go to heaven? SRSLY, it's fun, go look.
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Done no extra digging, but this would hit several friends of mine directlyâ”deactivated firearms include muskets for civil war re-enactments, the wannabe history teacher in me is appalled they're even considering it. The politico in me is used to New Labour's bansturbating crap already :-(
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She keeps whinging I haven't plugged this enough. Given I've barely posted anything this surprises who, exactly? Anyway, a proper write up may follow, in the meantime, go vote already.
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If you use Gmail, read this and do what it says. Those more technically inclined than me will understand why it was daft for them not to default to HTTPS instead of insecure HTTP, but they have now let you always force that, which is a step in the right direction.
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Ignoring the stuff about the 'postcode lottery' (essentially media bollocks: different spending priorities in different areas is localismâ”the problem is Scotland has democratic accountability, England doesn't), but the co-payments policy is daft. Well meaning, but daft.
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Very pointless, but at the same time. Play Tetris with maps. Not bad for learning a bit of geography, there's no way I'm playing on hard though.
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